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Crossroad Avenger: The Adventures of the Tucson Kid is a film of genre Western directed by Ed Wood released in USA on 31 december 1952 with Tom Keene
Crossroad Avenger: The Adventures of the Tucson Kid (1952)
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Add to a movie listCrossroad Avenger is a 1953 Western film intended to serve as a television pilot. It was directed by Ed Wood (who also wrote the script) and served as a star vehicle for Tom Keene. Keene had become known as a star of B movie Westerns in the 1930s and 1940s, but was experiencing a downturn in his career in the 1950s. Wood served as both writer and director. He also had a small acting role as a Pony Express rider.
The film lasts 25 minutes. The series failed to find a buyer. It was eventually combined with another Western starring Keene into a longer film called The Adventures of the Tucson Kid and was syndicated to television c. 1954.
Synopsis
Keene plays the "Tucson Kid", an insurance investigator who travels to any town where a suspicious insurance claim has appeared. The career description would allow the proposed series to adopt an anthology format, with a different location and storyline in each episode. The other hero of the story is a sheriff's deputy called Ed (Tom Tyler). Both are middle aged men.Actors
Tom Keene
(The Tucson Kid)
Tom Tyler
(Deputy Ed)
Lyle Talbot
(Bart Miller)
Harvey B. Dunn
(Zeke)
Kenne Duncan
(Lefty)
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